Our special video series looks at some of the more unique shells at the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum on Sanibel, ...

Along with spices and other merchandise, ships of the Dutch East India Company brought back spectacularly beautiful shells from what is now Indonesia, and they became prized items in the private ...

And there, in the patterns of the shells, we got to see a beautiful example of handedness, or parity violation – a profound and fascinating feature of the world that has played a big role in the ...